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Fanon cliches are driving me batty. They keep trying to butt in to my slave fic. John may be a private guy but he's also smart. If he had a problem, whether something physical or mental that was interfering with his job, he would get help so he could function and do what he needed to in order to protect others.
But the cliche (sometimes over-done to a ridiculous degree at that) of him being so stubborn he would refuse to get any kind of help from anyone keeps trying to muscle its way in. Though I know he would react in a certain way to certain situations, my brain keeps wanting me to write him reacting in a totally different way. It's actually making my story a lot harder to write than it should be. I'm trying to go in a different direction from what has been done. It's clear in my head but once I start writing it down it tries to veer off course.
But I will get this story done, consarnit! I will! (Twenty chapters thus far with plenty more to go. I don't do word counts as they mean nothing to me.)
On a positive note, I finally got my laptop and have been writing like crazy - both my SGA fic and a Thoughtcrimes chapter fic. Yay! It's so nice being able to whip out chapters more quickly (not too quick, of course, since I'm altering between the two depending on what I'm in the mood to write.) No more TV messing with my concentration or people demanding the computer. I'm free, free!
But the cliche (sometimes over-done to a ridiculous degree at that) of him being so stubborn he would refuse to get any kind of help from anyone keeps trying to muscle its way in. Though I know he would react in a certain way to certain situations, my brain keeps wanting me to write him reacting in a totally different way. It's actually making my story a lot harder to write than it should be. I'm trying to go in a different direction from what has been done. It's clear in my head but once I start writing it down it tries to veer off course.
But I will get this story done, consarnit! I will! (Twenty chapters thus far with plenty more to go. I don't do word counts as they mean nothing to me.)
On a positive note, I finally got my laptop and have been writing like crazy - both my SGA fic and a Thoughtcrimes chapter fic. Yay! It's so nice being able to whip out chapters more quickly (not too quick, of course, since I'm altering between the two depending on what I'm in the mood to write.) No more TV messing with my concentration or people demanding the computer. I'm free, free!
